I would like to exchange FEAGIN & FORTSON family history information with other researchers. I also have information on the areas where they lived in GEORGIA & ALABAMA. Eugenia Hobday Note: Compiled information subject to correction. *RICHARD FORTSON* b: 6 FEB 1778; d: 02 NOV 1836; son of RACHEL WINN and THOMAS FORTSON , JR.; married LUCY TATE ARNOLD. Lived in Elbert County; died in Harris County, Georgia.. CHILDREN OF RICHARD AND LUCY are: 1. WILLIAM FORTSON 2. TAVENOR W. FORTSON [Moved to Alabama. later to Texas.] 3. SARAH FORTSON married Thomas A. THORNTON. [He moved to Alabama.] 4. MARY FORTSON married SAMUEL TURMAN on 20 DEC 1827, in Elbert County, Georgia. [third great grandparents] [Mary died 20 AUG 1850 in Macon/Barbour County, AL.] 5. BENJAMIN WINN FORTSON 6. MILDRED FORTSON [Moved to Alabama.] 7. SUSAN TATE FORTSON married Andrew B. GRIFFIN. [Moved to Alabama.] 8. ELIZABETH FORTSON married Allen EILAND. [Moved to Alabama. Later to Louisiana.] 9. JAMES THOMAS FORTSON Source: John Wright Boyd, A Family History: Lt. Thomas Fortson (1742-1824) and Some of His Descendants--Early Settler of Elbert County, Georgia (Danielsville, Ga.: Heritage Papers, 1973) . ______________________________________________________________________________________________ *SAMUEL FEAGIN*, son of Richardson FEAGIN; b: 8 OCT 1782 in Feaginville, N.C.; d: 5 MAR 1848 in Barbour Co., AL. Between 1832 & 1836, Samuel Feagin, a North Carolinian [by birth], moved to Barbour County, Alabama from Jones Co, Georgia, where he had been Sheriff; County Commissioner; Justice of the Peace for many years.